. >>> keep it right here, america, "nightline" is back in just 60 >>> good evening, thank you for joining us, tonight, we explore a powerful case of crime and punishment, still being hotly debated 25 years after the fact. arnold friedman and his son, jesse, both pled guilty to a series of horrible sexual crimes. the victims? young boys. millions of americans debated the case and in the years since, new evidence has come to light including evidence from an appellate court, wondering if justice was really done. with witnesses recanting, we recapture the friedmans. >> what is today's date? >> today is the date before i went to jail. >> reporter: this is jesse friedman in a home video, 25 years ago, he is 19 and about to go to prison for a series of terrible crimes. hundreds of counts of molesting young boys in great neck, long island. >> a teacher in long island is charged with sodomizing young boys who were his students. did you ever do it? >> no. >> reporter: he may be denying it on his way to prison, but he pled guilty, along with his son. he went to prison for 13 years. and this is jesse